She added: “While performance measures provide important insight into how services are operating, what matters most is what they mean for patients. In 2025, that included very low rates of hospital-acquired infection, all medical oncology patients being admitted within two weeks, and strong emergency care outcomes.
“Those are the measures that reflect the quality of care patients receive in our consultant delivered model and why we would welcome the inclusion of even more outcome and experience-based measures in future reporting.”
St Pier was also critical of the lack of an explanation of why the report was eight months late.
He said: “Whilst some favourable comparisons are drawn with performance in the NHS, given the crisis which that institution is in, that does not feel like the right jurisdiction to compare us against.
“Most islanders would want and expect better.”
Le Cheminant said: “We recognise that no two healthcare systems are directly comparable and that performance data should be considered in context.
“Our clinicians are NHS-trained, regulated and practise to the same professional standards, which is why benchmarking against the NHS is relevant and standard in comparable island jurisdictions.”
Health bosses have come under fire from the head of the island’s scrutiny committee for not doing any interviews following the release of the report.
Each year, Guernsey’s States pays the MSG about £18m for the delivery of secondary healthcare.